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...years, Dean Sperry has been in charge of the Divinity School, and for 25 years, has been principal preacher in Memorial Church...
Pastor Evans, a big (6 ft. 4½ in.), brisk man, is also a compelling preacher. Besides his four Sunday sermons, he gives an average of four major addresses each week, not counting informal talks. To make his tightly packed lecture schedules, his wife Marie often drives him from one engagement to another while he sits in the back seat of the car pecking out his next speech on a specially built typewriter stand...
After the University moved on in 1842, Felton, a gentleman of wit, moved in. He was followed some years later by F. C. Huntington, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and long the University preacher. Huntington was regarded as somewhat of an apostate when he finally turned Episcopalian after a long Unitarian career, and Felton summed him up, too. "Christian Professor of Plumber's Morals," said...
...parents were fervent Baptists, and Bill earned his first $5 for reading the entire Bible aloud for his illiterate father. His father wanted him to be a Baptist preacher. Bill settled instead for teaching Sunday school until he was in his 40s, and, to the time of his death, was in demand as a lay preacher...
...talk over his problems, give him some Bible verses to memorize, get him to sign a card accepting Jesus as his savior. Critics say that evangelism's converts are only "Christians for a night." But within 24 hours, the "Graham team" has dispatched a letter to the nearest preacher of each convert's denominational choice with instructions to follow...